The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-14
A CHANCE FOR WHEELING.
New Coke and Orc Fields Placed Mt Her
Doors by New Roads.

New Coke and Orc Fields Placed Mt Her
Doors by New Roads.
In the last issue Of the St. Louis .aqe Of
Steel, Mr.. P.H. Moore, Of this city, ("Cold
Shortly has tho following:
Another Interesting 'fisld for Pittsburgh
capitalists has been discovered near the
White Sulphur Springs in West Virginia,
on the line Of the N. N. & NJ. Y. railroad.
It is deposit OF Bessemer ore, assaying
GA per cent Of metallic iron aud low in
phosphorus and sulphur. It is claimed
that it eau be brought to Pittsburgh for
81 per ton against S. for lake ore. This
evidently means transportation to Hun
tinston on the Newport News & Mieeis-
slppi Valley railroad, and from there 10
Pittsburgh by the Ohio River and Pitts
busgh, Wheeling l. Kentucky railroads,
1t strikes me that Whesling could make
profitable venture in this direction, and,
II the above statements arc true, bring
this ore to her furnaces fer about S. per
ton. Ihe grandiloquentc claims OF Birming-
nam would pale to very homely metre
before such advantages. GGlls
West Virginia, half decently handled by
railroads and politicians, will come for
wazd yet aud demonstrate TINT the pro.
ducing center of the iron and steel indus.
tries is several degrees north of Alabama
yet. The future Of Wheeling, the preaent
commercial and manufacturing center Of
the State, would bs even greater and mora
prosperous than that which tho Msgis
city has 30 vauntingly aacribed to herself.
Tho more merited, too, because sha is po:-
sesssd Of great riches without vain glory.
Pittsburgh, lift is In another State, would
ehaEe in the progress achieved BY Wheel.
Ing, Tor their interests and advantages are
identical, but Wheeling should not quietly
look on while Pittsburgh capital occupieu
her State to her own disadvantage. It in
by no means probable that this Bessemer
ore deposit is restricted TO clrcumscribed
area, but very likely in State so rich
with mineral deposits it extends through
very considerable region OF that noun
tain country. It ia reported that Carnegie
y 90. are negotiating for the mine men
toned above. Before another year passes
there will be some very extensive devcl.
opments Of splendid coking coal and Beese.
mer orc mines in West Virginia, bstwoon
the Cheat and the New rivers
About $500 tons Of pig iron are pro-
ducod daily in this district by the twenty
two furnaces now in blast in and about
Pittsburgh and Wheeling, and yet there
are no stocks accommodating. Ths daily
transactions are fewer and smaller than
they were q month ago, bu. this Ia no evi-
denca OF the condition. Consumers order
ed literally during the first six weeks Of
theyear,coverin requirements possible for
three months, and the furnaces are fully
occupied filling these contracts. The very
best evidence of this is the fact that
orders for standard brands can not be
readily placed. Beyond all question,
values in all the iron and steel depart.
ments aro restless, and they will so con.
Time until they settle on o stable basis,
which will be far from present rates,
and there they will stay until next fall.